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Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing is closing down its NASCAR Xfinity Series team on the eve of the 2019 season. The team had already signed race-winner Ross Chastain for a full-season programme that will now not go ahead. Ganassi had won six

Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup Series calendar was one of last year’s biggest talking points as leading drivers criticised it, but demands for action must wait – major changes cannot come before 2020. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kurt Busch was the most critical in

Jimmie Johnson says the hardest aspect of his “worst” NASCAR Cup series season was working through the 2018 campaign knowing he was parting with crew chief Chad Knaus. Since his Cup series career began in 2002, Johnson had his first winless season this year, and only truly contended for victory once. He collided with Martin

Chip Ganassi says Kurt Busch’s arrival at his NASCAR Cup team could lead to the driver appearing in races such as the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 24 Hours. The new Ganassi recruit has previously competed in the Indy 500, finishing an impressive sixth in 2014 (below). That entry was part of an attempt to

The historic Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway could return to NASCAR competition for the first time since 2000 after it signed a deal with Bristol’s track operator and its owner Speedway Motorsports. The Fairgrounds Speedway last hosted a NASCAR-sanctioned race in 2000 when the Truck series competed at the track, although it has hosted ARCA races (picture

By 2020, North America’s two largest stock car racing organisations will combine after NASCAR purchased ARCA earlier this year – a deal with the potential to make lasting changes to NASCAR. For casual observers, this move will do little in the short-term – the NASCAR ladder will remain as it is with the top-tier Cup

Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve will return to racing full-time next year in the NASCAR Euro Series. Villeneuve, the 1997 champion with Williams, made four NASCAR Cup starts – the first two of which came a year after his final outings in F1 – between 2007 and ’13 and has also competed in the

NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano has given Ford’s new 2019 Mustang its first on-track appearance at Charlotte. Ford claimed its first title since 2004 when Logano triumphed in his Penske-run Ford Fusion – the oldest car on the grid by some margin. Chevrolet brought its Camaro model to series for 2018, exploiting a loosening of

Chevrolet says it is now on the right track in the NASCAR Cup series after a troubled introduction for the 2018 Chevrolet Camaro and the exit of veteran drivers. The General Motors brand made the perfect start with its new-for-2018 Camaro by winning the season-opening Daytona 500, but it took until the 22nd race of

New NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano has admitted he “felt really weak” and like his career was over when his initial big break with Joe Gibbs Racing went awry. Logano joined the Cup series with praise from veterans such as Mark Martin and with the nickname “Sliced Bread”, coming off the back of a

Kurt Busch says his move to the Chip Ganassi Racing NASCAR Cup series team for 2019 was appealing because it is a “streamlining” two-car outfit Busch has left the four-car Stewart Haas Racing squad, spearheaded by 2018 title contender Kevin Harvick, to make the switch. The new Ganassi recruit will partner Kyle Larson in 2019,

The now-defunct Furniture Row Racing team that ran Martin Truex Jr to the 2017 NASCAR Cup series title has had its charter bought ahead of the ’19 season. The charter, which guarantees entry and the right to prize money, has been bought by the Spire Sports + Entertainment company, which has clients in NASCAR including

Kurt Busch has completed his deal to join the Chip Ganassi Racing NASCAR Cup team for the 2019 season. The 2004 Cup champion confirmed on Sunday he would leave Stewart-Haas Racing, for which he has driven since 2014, and had previously been tipped to join Ganassi. He has now announced that move, which will involve

Kurt Busch has confirmed that he will not return to Stewart-Haas Racing for the 2019 NASCAR Cup series season, ahead of an expected move to Chip Ganassi Racing. The 2004 Cup champion’s departure from SHR was first reported in August by Autosport. Confirming his SHR exit on Twitter, Busch wrote: “I will miss everyone, especially

Daniel Suarez says he did not feel at home during his time competing with Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series. The 26-year-old Mexican lost his drive to 2017 champion Martin Truex Jr for next year, although he is understood to be in the running to land a seat with Stewart-Haas Racing. The 2016

NASCAR is “confident” that it can add a fourth manufacturer to the Cup field sometime after 2020, and has not ruled out finding a fifth. The top-level series currently has three manufacturers in Ford, Chevrolet and Toyota. It last had four manufacturers in 2012, Dodge’s final season before it pulled out of NASCAR. Rumours of

Fernando Alonso says he was “very far away” from finding a good lap in his NASCAR test run in Bahrain. While seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson impressed in a Formula 1 car during a swap on Monday organised by McLaren, Alonso said car characteristics and a lack of tyre grip left him struggling to

Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson has admitted 2018 was the “most difficult” season of his top-level career. This year is the first Johnson failed to win a race since joining the Cup field full-time in 2002, and he was eliminated from title contention at the first playoff cut-off race in a last-lap collision with

Last year’s NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr says the now-closing Furniture Row Racing team made him a “superstar”. Truex narrowly missed out on back-to-back titles in a 15-lap shootout following a late caution at this year’s Homestead decider, with Penske’s Joey Logano sweeping past to take his first crown. Logano’s victory denied Truex

New NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano says he proved at Homestead that he was right to consider himself title favourite. The Penske Ford driver had proclaimed himself the championship favourite after making the final four following a last-lap clash at Martinsville with Martin Truex Jr. Fellow title contenders Truex and Kyle Busch both dismissed

Defeated 2018 NASCAR Cup Series title contender Kevin Harvick says his Stewart-Haas Racing Ford was a “daytime” racecar that prevented him challenging for the championship late on at Homestead. Harvick and SHR started the weekend on a run of difficult form, qualifying just 12th on the grid with a car the 2014 Cup champion described

Joey Logano won the 2018 NASCAR Cup series title in a dramatic 15-lap shootout following a late caution at Homestead that pitched the final four contenders into a head-to-head battle. The Penske driver led more laps than any of his other final four rivals – Martin Truex Jr, Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick – but

Tyler Reddick has won the 2018 NASCAR Xfinity series championship after victory at Homestead, driving for Dale Earnhardt Jr’s JR Motorsports team. Reddick, 22, left it late to surge to a comfortable victory in a race that didn’t have a single caution, and was dominated by final four rival Cole Custer early in the race.

Defending NASCAR Cup series champion Martin Truex Jr says it is “eye for an eye” if he finds Joey Logano in front of him during the title decider at Homestead. Truex and Logano clashed earlier in the playoffs at Martinsville when the Penske driver collided with the Furniture Row Racing man on the final lap

Denny Hamlin has forfeitted the coveted number one pitbox after winning pole for the NASCAR Cup Series finale at Homestead, handing it to his Joe Gibbs Racing team-mate Kyle Busch. Hamlin upstaged the final four championship contenders to earn pole for the Homestead finale. But after winning the pole, there were immediate discussions regarding giving

Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver Denny Hamlin took pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series title decider at Homestead, with Kyle Busch the highest-placed of the four title contenders in second. Hamlin – who won this event in 2013 but is winless so far this season – set a late flying lap of 31.059s around the

Kyle Busch says non-contenders for the NASCAR Cup title should give the ‘Final Four’ who can win the crown “that extra quarter-inch” of racing room this weekend. Speaking on the media day ahead of the championship decider, Busch said he expects those outside of the title contenders to race for the win at Homestead, but

This weekend, the 2018 NASCAR Cup series champion will be decided at Homestead from four contenders, but an earlier race may have hinted at who the title winner will be. Chicago is the only other Cup race to use the exact same Goodyear tyre compound as Homestead, because both 1.5-mile speedways are the most abrasive

Furniture Row Racing team owner Barney Visser says he has no second thoughts about closing his NASCAR Cup series championship-winning team at the end of 2018. The team that supported Martin Truex Jr’s 2017 championship victory will close its doors at the end of 2018 after the exit of a key sponsor. Visser had previously

Kyle Busch says the NASCAR Cup series’ final four championship contenders at Homestead this weekend are the “best of the best”. Busch will be joined by fellow ‘Big Three’ drivers Martin Truex Jr and Kevin Harvick, with the trio dominating the regular season. Penske’s Joey Logano is the fourth contender at Homestead after becoming the